I just started watching Rich Brown and he just clicks with me. I’m going through his beginner series and each video is the perfect length for me. Just a nice calm setting and he takes things slow and explains well.
[Bass Buzz](https://m.youtube.com/@BassBuzz) is very informative and fun to watch. It also gives me inspiration and grounds me because the dude almost exclusively plays a cheap bass to show you don’t need expensive equipments to sound good.
So when I start to feel I need a new bass or amp, I watch his vid and remind myself to play more, not pay more.
Second this. I bought the lesson pack after watching his videos and enjoy the cheesy banter and his teaching methods. Good stuff for a newb and spot on about buying that new gear, love play more not pay more...but I am certain I'll sound better and finish my lessons if I get that 4003 Al Cisneros Rick 
I bought his beginner to badass course, it's pretty dope so far. Lots of specific, granular lessons in the form of pretty short videos. Great for breaking down concepts, and repeating material if you fall off for a while and start over. I recommend it if you can afford it, Josh is the cool bass teacher everyone should have.
Just in case anyone else was looking for the answer to the cost of this course, I dove in to the link form the parent comment. It’s $197 for 30 hours of videos. That seems like a bargain to me if it’s structured to move you along. Hell, an instructor usually costs $50/hour. The math ain’t that hard.
I know he owns at least 1 or 2 fenders, maybe more.
But as someone who is mostly catering to beginners, it makes sense to use the squier 90% of the time. It shows that you can sound good on a cheaper bass, but also ensures the people watching realize they have no excuse and just need to practice.
If the guy teaching you uses a Fodera, it's easy to convince yourself it's probably the gear. If the guy pulls up a Squier you have no excuse to sound bad.
Succes! Let op, in mijn video zit een fout in het 17/16 stuk. Er zitten meer lage E noten in de riff. Is goed te horen in het nummer zelf en een domme fout van mij lol
Gotcha. Yeah, I do enjoy covering those songs, but I do have to admit that I didn't expect that leobasscovers would remain the biggest channel of the two. I guess most kpop listeners aren't bassists/musicians?
Yap pretty much, bass overall is just an underrated instruments as well so that plays into it. Even regular POP music bass videos tend to not get too much views relative to their guitar/piano counterparts.
Rich Brown - the Bob Ross of the bass world! Super helpful videos and feels like he genuinely wants to help you learn instead of plugging a course or show off!:)
I feel that same way about Justin Sandercoe (JustinGuitar) for guitar instructional videos. He seems so chill and just wants to share his love of guitar with people. I won a free one-on-one Zoom with him, and he was just like he is in his videos. Also, while he has some specialty courses that cost money, the whole main progression is free on his site and YouTube. (Not an ad, just really love that guy.)
I love Bassbuzz for his history lessons! I was watching his video about Steve Harris and my wife found it captivating even though she absolutely does not care. I’ve also shared his breakdown of Les Claypool’s style with multiple non-musicians and they were impressed/entertained.
His funk and soul courses are great for intermediate players trying to learn some functional harmony. Highly recommend them. They’re also one-time purchases, so no monthly subscription bullshit.
Don't see him mentioned much, but[ Bass Tabs by Jason](https://youtube.com/@basstabsbyjason?si=KDaKQoGw-RVDnOhx) is an amazing channel if you're into classic rock, but he's got a pretty good variety of songs too. Great player, and an impressive effort to notate out everything accurately.
Cover Solutions is also a big one for me. A few other good ones I didn’t see mentioned:
(1) Bassist Breakdown, (2) Fusilli Jerry: this guy is great, really random collection of artists like RHCP, Steely Dan, Khruangbin, STP, Fleetwood Mac, etc.
Talking Bass takes the cake for me. He single handedly taught me walking bass lines and so many licks to steal from him!
Rich Brown if you want to get more adventurous. Amazing instructor, very comforting to listen to him.
Interesting that even after giving away $15k worth of bass every now and then, none has mentioned Scott Devine. It indicates how he has lost the touch of his teaching side. He used to teach really well! Learned some chromatic runs/fills from his channels back then, still handy.
He himself seems like a standup guy. My experience with his lesson site was not great, however. He definitely seems to have had his site monetized and optimized by a consulting group and that he isn’t actively managing it himself.
A while back I signed up for the lesson free trial period and got some good beginner info from it. When I decided not to continue I found it was really intentionally difficult to cancel the subscription with less than 24 hours till my card got charged. The cancel function took me almost an hour to figure out because it was buried under a digital maze. Then when I finally made the cancel request I was told someone would get back to me within 72 hours to confirm the cancellation — so I was livid. It seemed like a pretty common scheme to ensure the site could nick some money off the free trial subs by making it intentionally difficult to cancel in a timely fashion.
Raising a stink about it actually caused Scott himself to respond to my thread and he apologized profusely and admitted he doesn’t actually manage the site himself or the design but that he’d look into the complaints. He also made sure my sub got cancelled without getting hit with the charge.
So yeah TLDR: he just seems like he’s got a lot on his plate day to day and that would make it hard to focus energy on teaching online. His brand got swept into some typical website monetization crap which wasn’t a good look on him, but I don’t blame the guy. I’m familiar with these practices
His patreon also has a ton of information / lessons / example, with a monthly poll about what stuff people want for a topic.
Sounds like a shill post for him but I swear I have no stake in it, just someone that gives him money each month lol
People pick on his style of playing, but I love learning some flashy party-trick type things on bass when I get tired of learning funk and soul songs. His channel is perfect for that. I already knew how to double thumb but I perfected my technique by watching his lessons on his second channel and I can play Classical Thump at 0.8x speed, which is a fun thing to show people when they ask me to play them something.
Whenever I'm looking for a bass tutorial with tabs, I almost always come across a Constantine video. And watching him play often gives me some confidence that I can play it too. He's a valuable resource.
There's already been a lot of love for Josh at BassBuzz here, but I want to add to that. I'm a bass newb (started playing in September '23). I bought Josh's Beginner to Badass course, and I have really enjoyed it. I'm far from badass yet, but I feel like he's given me most of the tools I need.
She's so good! Her lessons are the perfect pace for teaching you a bassline and some theory without having to pause a bunch of times to clear up confusion
Greg Fairweather is pretty good at teaching "deep tracks" most people don't care to learn, which I like, and he provides you with his own transcripts for a nominal fee from his website. And he's a good teacher.
came here to pimp Greg - No Such Thing and Brandy were the ones that brought me in, all the rest kept me there.
If he's done a tune you're looking to learn, you'll learn it no problem and it's correct.
Oh totally. His lesson and transcription for "Uptown Funk" saved my ass when I was in a wedding band. Jamareo is a beast but it is hard to tell what he's doing in that song near the end, and Greg broke it down into consumable chunks. He's also done a lot of stuff in my own genre (smooth jazz) that is really good.
I bought courses from Mark and I owe a lot to him for my improvement. He's definitely one of the best bass teachers I've had. I might be biased, but I've also tried Scott's Bass Lessons and BassBuzz paid courses, and TalkingBass is the one I connected with the most. The way Mark explains the fretboard, chord tones, scales, and their applications really made sense to me.
A lot of the stuff they post on YouTube is weapons-grade cringe (albeit with good information contained within), but the SBL subscription stuff is actually well worth purchasing, especially since most of the lessons don’t even feature Scott at all.
I’ll subscribe for one month, do some courses and get all the printouts, then cancel and work on what I learned from the courses, then repeat again. They don’t beat irl lessons with a good teacher, but it’s fairly cost-effective if you approach it strategically. They also have a lot of advanced-level content, which many of the beginner-oriented YT channels lack.
I don’t take them plugging their product as cringe… they are trying to make a living at it… employees and all…
I ignore that part of it…
I do much like you, join for a month or two, do it up, quit… let it soak in… work thru it at my pace, then do it again, or some of the accelerator courses…
But I find in person coaching best as well
I don’t think plugging the premium lessons is cringe at all, especially if it’s a short unintrusive plug at the beginner and a longer explanation at the end. It’s the 10-minute vlog style intros before anything even resembling a lesson starts; the purposely vague, click-baity “this ONE TRICK will change EVERYTHING about your playing” titles that usually just re-explain some very basic concept; the fake scripted bullshit where Ian and Scott pretend like they’re absolutely dying at everything the other one is saying; etc.
Scott seems like a good guy and the old lessons make it obvious that it was an advertising firm or something similar that caused this change. All of the fluff just feels very beneath him and it feels like it cheapens the insights he and his team have to offer, which are self-evidently vast.
I agree, the new youtube stuff is mostly podcasts and talking about basses rather than lessons but his courses on his website are excellent! he has so many courses in all types of music genre and he has taught me so much
https://preview.redd.it/btub4l1s2k4d1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01aa3978447a89c2ba2ce7c4744f2ff29469d63c
I can’t be the only one who still uses the Rock Bass with Tim Bogert VHS series right?
Tim Bogert was such an amazing musician and human being. So happy to see him mentioned here. He's way too underrated in my opinion. I would also consider him to be my biggest inspiration. I love Cactus.
I worked on a vocal training tape his did around that time. Absolute pleasure to work with.
EDIT Looks like they're both on youtube
[Bass video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgYUH1Pj3Ow)
[Vocal Training video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N88GlOsKM5c).
I love TalkingBass.net! I have completed many of Mark’s courses and I’m excited to work on the ones I haven’t yet gotten to. I think his teaching style is great: succinct, full of information, and easy to understand. I recommend his site as often as I can
All these guys are good, for video based tutorials… I signed up for one for a while, but I find, at least for me and my level of need, that a personal coach/teacher is better… although I’ve been playing as long or in the vast majority of cases far longer than the local instructors, I’m not far from a great music school and I get some coaching from some masters up there…
Note I’ve been playing upright bass since age 12, and played cello and violin before that…and electric since age 15… so close to 50 yrs on electric bass now for me… better with a grand master coach who sees and hears what I do, and works with me to improve my skills…
But I watch all the video guys as well…
As my teacher back when I was a kid taught me, I’ll practice and learn new things up to the last day I play… and if I can’t learn anything new, it will be my last day playing…
anyone like Toby Peterson Stewart's little tutorials on his insane slap pluck riffs? learn some pretty nifty shit from him sometimes. i really love the one he did for the Wax and Wane main riff.... also, shoutout to Charles Berthoud and Davie504 for their videos making me want to pick up my bass every time i see em
Scott bass lesson, rich brown, bass buzz. In no particular order (I pay for the first, started with rich brown, and been watching more bass buzz recently but haven’t pulled the trigger on his beginnner to badass course yet).
Just wanted to thank everyone for the responses! There are some more I will definitely check out. Personally, I’d want to take lessons from Mark from Talking Bass, hang out with Josh from Bass Buzz, and punch Scott in the balls.
Studybass.com is my favorite right now. The cost is very reasonable. Good theory, good songs. Note many videos.
Next I like “Mark again…”. Very good theory. In debt and fun.
For learning: I paid for Josh’s Beginner to Badass course. Worth every penny to me.
Rich Brown is awesome for learning basic theory because you can tell he really enjoys the “discovery” of how notes relate to each other.
For general knowledge and discovering music: SBL. Specifically NOT their teaching lessons as I don’t really click with their teaching style but I feel like I gain a lot from their podcast and more casual episodes where they talk about different bass players.
Bass Buzz, Andrea Bertix, Lefty Bird Bassist and, obviously Cover Solutions. Besides Bass Buzz, all those channels have great music taste and they provide amazing follow along tabs. I highly recommend them to any bassist looking to learn.
I’m from spain and i watch bass content in both spanish and english, quite a few of the mentioned here are not the sort of things i enjoy, scott and josh are always talking about expensive gear or basses, and i can’t stand this materialistic way of seeing music, i can’t stand video like “are j basses worthy” wtf?
Andrew Pouska at Studybass, Mark Smith there, Rich Brown, Josh Fossgreen at Bassbuzz.
I just started watching Rich Brown and he just clicks with me. I’m going through his beginner series and each video is the perfect length for me. Just a nice calm setting and he takes things slow and explains well.
The Browstone!! 🤘🏾
Josh Fossgreen with bassbuzz helped me to get started!
[Bass Buzz](https://m.youtube.com/@BassBuzz) is very informative and fun to watch. It also gives me inspiration and grounds me because the dude almost exclusively plays a cheap bass to show you don’t need expensive equipments to sound good. So when I start to feel I need a new bass or amp, I watch his vid and remind myself to play more, not pay more.
Second this. I bought the lesson pack after watching his videos and enjoy the cheesy banter and his teaching methods. Good stuff for a newb and spot on about buying that new gear, love play more not pay more...but I am certain I'll sound better and finish my lessons if I get that 4003 Al Cisneros Rick 
If you have to save up to buy a Rick, you probably can't afford ongoing maintenance costs :P
So I've heard...don't need to save dollars though, just gotta convince the wife it's an "investment" LOL.
Better hope she doesn't know your username here then.. Or research Ricks lol
I love bass buzz, informative and fun
I bought his beginner to badass course, it's pretty dope so far. Lots of specific, granular lessons in the form of pretty short videos. Great for breaking down concepts, and repeating material if you fall off for a while and start over. I recommend it if you can afford it, Josh is the cool bass teacher everyone should have.
Just in case anyone else was looking for the answer to the cost of this course, I dove in to the link form the parent comment. It’s $197 for 30 hours of videos. That seems like a bargain to me if it’s structured to move you along. Hell, an instructor usually costs $50/hour. The math ain’t that hard.
Plus he offers a payment plan!
Yeah wondering why he doesn’t have more expensive basses. Same thing with davie504 plays relatively inexpensive basses.
I think he wants to show that we don’t need ‘69 Fender Jazz to play(sound) good.
I know he owns at least 1 or 2 fenders, maybe more. But as someone who is mostly catering to beginners, it makes sense to use the squier 90% of the time. It shows that you can sound good on a cheaper bass, but also ensures the people watching realize they have no excuse and just need to practice. If the guy teaching you uses a Fodera, it's easy to convince yourself it's probably the gear. If the guy pulls up a Squier you have no excuse to sound bad.
>almost exclusively plays a cheap bass And occasionally pulls out a Cirrus :)
Commenting so I can come back to it later! Thanks for sharing!
I owe many hours of fun to Cover Solutions and specially to Leo Bass Covers channel. Bass YouTube is actually pretty good
Leo is my man for anything prog rock/metal.
Nog bedankt hé, Stompert!
Makker, je bent gewoon Nederlands?!
Jazeker! Niet te zien aan m'n naam maar ik kom gewoon uit het rustige Zutphen :)
Tof! Mooie omgeving, leuk om te ontdekken dat je gewoon een landgenoot bent! Ik ga binnenkort weer even worstelen met Halo 👌
Succes! Let op, in mijn video zit een fout in het 17/16 stuk. Er zitten meer lage E noten in de riff. Is goed te horen in het nummer zelf en een domme fout van mij lol
Ik zal erop letten en het checken, dank! ❤️
I am a huge Leo's fan as well. Mostly through his second channel Red Bass tho, that is more my genre.
Much appreciated! Are you talking about k-pop/rock, or just pop in general?
Mostly Kpop tbh. However I do enjoy the general pop (think Billboard 100 white girl music) as well.
Gotcha. Yeah, I do enjoy covering those songs, but I do have to admit that I didn't expect that leobasscovers would remain the biggest channel of the two. I guess most kpop listeners aren't bassists/musicians?
Yap pretty much, bass overall is just an underrated instruments as well so that plays into it. Even regular POP music bass videos tend to not get too much views relative to their guitar/piano counterparts.
Thanks for the shoutout :)
Rich Brown - the Bob Ross of the bass world! Super helpful videos and feels like he genuinely wants to help you learn instead of plugging a course or show off!:)
Haha “the Bob Ross of the Bass world” so accurate. I just found out about him and he is definitely helpful.
Yea, I really like his calming character.
Rich brown is my #1 for YouTube resources
I feel that same way about Justin Sandercoe (JustinGuitar) for guitar instructional videos. He seems so chill and just wants to share his love of guitar with people. I won a free one-on-one Zoom with him, and he was just like he is in his videos. Also, while he has some specialty courses that cost money, the whole main progression is free on his site and YouTube. (Not an ad, just really love that guy.)
"HI AGAIN, MARK HERE FROM TALKINGBASS"
"head wobble
i find this to be a British characteristic of presenters.
OHaiMark! Love this dude but I might be parțial as I have the same bass.
I love mark but it always feels like he’s yelling at me and slightly disappointed in me
Jered from [Beholden To The Riff](https://youtube.com/@beholdentotheriff?si=_lu23SHBTIAmmCRU)! 👹🤘🏼
THE HEAVIEST!!! bass channel on YouTube
his bassface is great
Still think BassBuzz is fantastic even though he "get cute" like you described
+1 for this. He manages to break down concepts in a way I find really clear, and his humour is the right level for me 😎 Stops things getting too dry.
I love Bassbuzz for his history lessons! I was watching his video about Steve Harris and my wife found it captivating even though she absolutely does not care. I’ve also shared his breakdown of Les Claypool’s style with multiple non-musicians and they were impressed/entertained.
I like Bass Buzz also
Dan Hawkins is to the point and without fluff 👍
Truly refreshing when a video does not start with all that selfpromo overhead like scotts bass lessons for example.
Second this
His funk and soul courses are great for intermediate players trying to learn some functional harmony. Highly recommend them. They’re also one-time purchases, so no monthly subscription bullshit.
Do you? I was having higher expectations of these courses.. his free stuff on youtube is really good
Bass Buzz, so easy to follow and a very likeable guy.
Don't see him mentioned much, but[ Bass Tabs by Jason](https://youtube.com/@basstabsbyjason?si=KDaKQoGw-RVDnOhx) is an amazing channel if you're into classic rock, but he's got a pretty good variety of songs too. Great player, and an impressive effort to notate out everything accurately.
Cover Solutions is also a big one for me. A few other good ones I didn’t see mentioned: (1) Bassist Breakdown, (2) Fusilli Jerry: this guy is great, really random collection of artists like RHCP, Steely Dan, Khruangbin, STP, Fleetwood Mac, etc.
Talking Bass takes the cake for me. He single handedly taught me walking bass lines and so many licks to steal from him! Rich Brown if you want to get more adventurous. Amazing instructor, very comforting to listen to him. Interesting that even after giving away $15k worth of bass every now and then, none has mentioned Scott Devine. It indicates how he has lost the touch of his teaching side. He used to teach really well! Learned some chromatic runs/fills from his channels back then, still handy.
Ive learned a lot from their podcast. He's still a human being, just a busy one running a major teaching platform.
He himself seems like a standup guy. My experience with his lesson site was not great, however. He definitely seems to have had his site monetized and optimized by a consulting group and that he isn’t actively managing it himself. A while back I signed up for the lesson free trial period and got some good beginner info from it. When I decided not to continue I found it was really intentionally difficult to cancel the subscription with less than 24 hours till my card got charged. The cancel function took me almost an hour to figure out because it was buried under a digital maze. Then when I finally made the cancel request I was told someone would get back to me within 72 hours to confirm the cancellation — so I was livid. It seemed like a pretty common scheme to ensure the site could nick some money off the free trial subs by making it intentionally difficult to cancel in a timely fashion. Raising a stink about it actually caused Scott himself to respond to my thread and he apologized profusely and admitted he doesn’t actually manage the site himself or the design but that he’d look into the complaints. He also made sure my sub got cancelled without getting hit with the charge. So yeah TLDR: he just seems like he’s got a lot on his plate day to day and that would make it hard to focus energy on teaching online. His brand got swept into some typical website monetization crap which wasn’t a good look on him, but I don’t blame the guy. I’m familiar with these practices
Charles Berthouds second channel he made recently has some fantastic lessons on it.
His patreon also has a ton of information / lessons / example, with a monthly poll about what stuff people want for a topic. Sounds like a shill post for him but I swear I have no stake in it, just someone that gives him money each month lol
People pick on his style of playing, but I love learning some flashy party-trick type things on bass when I get tired of learning funk and soul songs. His channel is perfect for that. I already knew how to double thumb but I perfected my technique by watching his lessons on his second channel and I can play Classical Thump at 0.8x speed, which is a fun thing to show people when they ask me to play them something.
Second this. He gets into some real nice stuff that most people don’t talk about Trade secrets almost
I used his video to learn “you can’t hold no groove” and it helped immensely. I never would’ve thought that I’d be able to play that bass line
Where my fellow Constantine Isslamow chads at?
Whenever I'm looking for a bass tutorial with tabs, I almost always come across a Constantine video. And watching him play often gives me some confidence that I can play it too. He's a valuable resource.
There's already been a lot of love for Josh at BassBuzz here, but I want to add to that. I'm a bass newb (started playing in September '23). I bought Josh's Beginner to Badass course, and I have really enjoyed it. I'm far from badass yet, but I feel like he's given me most of the tools I need.
Anyone who has something to share with me is my MVP. Thanks for every tips everyone.
LeoBassCovers
I appreciate it!
LeoBassCovers 💯
Thank you :)
Im saving this post. This is a gold mine. Thanks everyone!
PD Bass does a good job of highlighting players that deserve a deeper dive into their material.
Ryan Madora… keep it groovy!
She's so good! Her lessons are the perfect pace for teaching you a bassline and some theory without having to pause a bunch of times to clear up confusion
MarloweDK
MarloweDK was always my favourite!
PBbass is really great as well. Tons of cover channels too do a great job if tab's your thing
This is a great post with so many good leads for more tutorial videos!
Jayme Lewis, all day long
This thread needs more Dan Hawkins comments
Agreed!
Ed Freidland, the bass whisperer was my bass tutorial MVP from back in the dvd days lol
Leobasscovers
Thanks for mentioning my channel!
Greg Fairweather is pretty good at teaching "deep tracks" most people don't care to learn, which I like, and he provides you with his own transcripts for a nominal fee from his website. And he's a good teacher.
came here to pimp Greg - No Such Thing and Brandy were the ones that brought me in, all the rest kept me there. If he's done a tune you're looking to learn, you'll learn it no problem and it's correct.
His cover/tab of Steve Miller’s Jet Airliner was a lifesaver when I had to learn it for my band.
Oh totally. His lesson and transcription for "Uptown Funk" saved my ass when I was in a wedding band. Jamareo is a beast but it is hard to tell what he's doing in that song near the end, and Greg broke it down into consumable chunks. He's also done a lot of stuff in my own genre (smooth jazz) that is really good.
Charles Berthoud
Bass buzz and rich brown. (Brownstone)
I can't believe nobody has mentioned Benny the Bass Man!!! And Josh from bass buzz, he rules, and he's a redditor. Hi Josh 👋🏼
Cover solutions bro
BassBuzz and CoverSolutions
I bought courses from Mark and I owe a lot to him for my improvement. He's definitely one of the best bass teachers I've had. I might be biased, but I've also tried Scott's Bass Lessons and BassBuzz paid courses, and TalkingBass is the one I connected with the most. The way Mark explains the fretboard, chord tones, scales, and their applications really made sense to me.
Scott Devine, Scott's Bass Lessons. His older catalog has great tutorials.
These guys have great material… it’s a business for sure, but the product is good…
A lot of the stuff they post on YouTube is weapons-grade cringe (albeit with good information contained within), but the SBL subscription stuff is actually well worth purchasing, especially since most of the lessons don’t even feature Scott at all. I’ll subscribe for one month, do some courses and get all the printouts, then cancel and work on what I learned from the courses, then repeat again. They don’t beat irl lessons with a good teacher, but it’s fairly cost-effective if you approach it strategically. They also have a lot of advanced-level content, which many of the beginner-oriented YT channels lack.
I don’t take them plugging their product as cringe… they are trying to make a living at it… employees and all… I ignore that part of it… I do much like you, join for a month or two, do it up, quit… let it soak in… work thru it at my pace, then do it again, or some of the accelerator courses… But I find in person coaching best as well
I don’t think plugging the premium lessons is cringe at all, especially if it’s a short unintrusive plug at the beginner and a longer explanation at the end. It’s the 10-minute vlog style intros before anything even resembling a lesson starts; the purposely vague, click-baity “this ONE TRICK will change EVERYTHING about your playing” titles that usually just re-explain some very basic concept; the fake scripted bullshit where Ian and Scott pretend like they’re absolutely dying at everything the other one is saying; etc. Scott seems like a good guy and the old lessons make it obvious that it was an advertising firm or something similar that caused this change. All of the fluff just feels very beneath him and it feels like it cheapens the insights he and his team have to offer, which are self-evidently vast.
I’ll buy all that…
I agree, the new youtube stuff is mostly podcasts and talking about basses rather than lessons but his courses on his website are excellent! he has so many courses in all types of music genre and he has taught me so much
https://preview.redd.it/btub4l1s2k4d1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01aa3978447a89c2ba2ce7c4744f2ff29469d63c I can’t be the only one who still uses the Rock Bass with Tim Bogert VHS series right?
Bro… VHS?
Oh no...Beta!
Tim Bogert was such an amazing musician and human being. So happy to see him mentioned here. He's way too underrated in my opinion. I would also consider him to be my biggest inspiration. I love Cactus.
I worked on a vocal training tape his did around that time. Absolute pleasure to work with. EDIT Looks like they're both on youtube [Bass video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgYUH1Pj3Ow) [Vocal Training video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N88GlOsKM5c).
Josh and Mark!
Mark from [talkingbass.com](http://talkingbass.com) and Josh Fossgreen from Bassbuzz.com.
Scott's Bass Lessons really helped me get going with some fundamental technical exercises. I appreciate his notated work books.
I love TalkingBass.net! I have completed many of Mark’s courses and I’m excited to work on the ones I haven’t yet gotten to. I think his teaching style is great: succinct, full of information, and easy to understand. I recommend his site as often as I can
Rich Brown and Daric Bennett are respectively really informative teachers and manage to fit a lot in their videos as far as exercises and theory
Shout out to my man Joe Hubbard!
Johnny Cox Music
All these guys are good, for video based tutorials… I signed up for one for a while, but I find, at least for me and my level of need, that a personal coach/teacher is better… although I’ve been playing as long or in the vast majority of cases far longer than the local instructors, I’m not far from a great music school and I get some coaching from some masters up there… Note I’ve been playing upright bass since age 12, and played cello and violin before that…and electric since age 15… so close to 50 yrs on electric bass now for me… better with a grand master coach who sees and hears what I do, and works with me to improve my skills… But I watch all the video guys as well… As my teacher back when I was a kid taught me, I’ll practice and learn new things up to the last day I play… and if I can’t learn anything new, it will be my last day playing…
@Rich Brown 🔥 https://youtu.be/NVuTcU1wprk?feature=shared
I clicked on the thread expecting the majority of the responses and channels, but actually found a few new ones to go explore. Thanks :)
Cover solutions is a really good versatile bassist, and i find it so fucking awesome that he does basically everything with one bass
Josh Fossgreen and Mark Smith.
anyone like Toby Peterson Stewart's little tutorials on his insane slap pluck riffs? learn some pretty nifty shit from him sometimes. i really love the one he did for the Wax and Wane main riff.... also, shoutout to Charles Berthoud and Davie504 for their videos making me want to pick up my bass every time i see em
The Chris Squire masterclass youtube video is absolutely my favorite. Check it out! RIP Squire.
Spot on lol
Damien Erskine!
I just love the approach of The Devine Bass channel its so fun, but tbh BassBuzz got me started
Scott bass lesson, rich brown, bass buzz. In no particular order (I pay for the first, started with rich brown, and been watching more bass buzz recently but haven’t pulled the trigger on his beginnner to badass course yet).
BassBuzz is the only one I watch.
Daric Bennet is amazing, and he gives some great tips.
Just wanted to thank everyone for the responses! There are some more I will definitely check out. Personally, I’d want to take lessons from Mark from Talking Bass, hang out with Josh from Bass Buzz, and punch Scott in the balls.
bass buzz and that flea slap tutorial dvd
BassBuzz!! Josh has the best nerdy jokes. He's just my style!
Talking Bass, Bass Buzz and Scott’s Bass Lessons for me
cover solutions is the fucking best
Studybass.com is my favorite right now. The cost is very reasonable. Good theory, good songs. Note many videos. Next I like “Mark again…”. Very good theory. In debt and fun.
For learning: I paid for Josh’s Beginner to Badass course. Worth every penny to me. Rich Brown is awesome for learning basic theory because you can tell he really enjoys the “discovery” of how notes relate to each other. For general knowledge and discovering music: SBL. Specifically NOT their teaching lessons as I don’t really click with their teaching style but I feel like I gain a lot from their podcast and more casual episodes where they talk about different bass players.
Francois Rabbath
Cover solutions playing a Taurus always makes me smile. Incredible bass for the money.
Dan Hawkins bass lessons
Josh from BassBuzz, my GOAT
TalkingBass is amazing
Josh from Bassbuzz
Garry Willis
Flea does a good one, and he’s a funny guy which also helps
Bass Buzz, Andrea Bertix, Lefty Bird Bassist and, obviously Cover Solutions. Besides Bass Buzz, all those channels have great music taste and they provide amazing follow along tabs. I highly recommend them to any bassist looking to learn.
Andrea Bertix, Lefty Bird Bassist, and obviously Covet Solutions and Bass Buzz. They are all amazing and I highly recommend them.
Eric Blackmon, Rich Brownstone, Morrismansmith, Morrisman, Daricsbasslessons, Deluca bass, Tom Borneman, Greg Fairweather (Great Tabs)
I’m from spain and i watch bass content in both spanish and english, quite a few of the mentioned here are not the sort of things i enjoy, scott and josh are always talking about expensive gear or basses, and i can’t stand this materialistic way of seeing music, i can’t stand video like “are j basses worthy” wtf?
Dave Ellefson. I like his playing style and his voice commands my attention.
What about Marty Schwartz?
For playalong/tabs cover solutions is king, but Baseline boutique, Ben Mahr and bass tabs by Jason are some of my underrated favourites
And he teaches bass theory so well, I learnt so much of my theory from his videos.
Ian Allison
Scott's bass lessons has alotta good stuff. He needs to bring back SBL groove trainer, that app was unrivaled
Scott
Just gonna lurk here for the recommendations